Political Quotes

“Here we are dealing with some amount of irony with H.R. 1215. The year 1215 was the year the Magna Carta was signed, something that created the seeds of the American right to jury trial, for Heaven's sake. You know, we were pleased to hear Representative Duncan from Tennessee say: ``Conservatives believe strongly in the jury system.'' And I do, too, and Americans do, too. Our Founding Fathers believed in it. Here in America, where we trust juries to decide life and death for criminal defendants, why wouldn't we trust them to set a proper and fair dollar amount on a malpractice case? By definition, these are meritorious cases, cases where there was actual negligence, actual recklessness, actual intentional harm by healthcare providers or nursing homes. {time} 1515 But maybe most importantly, none of us, nary a soul in this House would deny that standing up for veterans and our military families is a core value for all of us. This is a bill that prevents accountability for harm done to military and veterans of the VA system.”